briztoon Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 G'day Guys, thought I'd introduce myself and my tanks. I've already been told NO MORE, unless I buy a new town house. Hi I'm Peter and these are my tanks. I'm pretty new to the hobby. I have had my first tank for about 6 months now, and my second tank for about a month now. As a kid our family kept a pretty bare tank with Oscars, firemouths and red forest jewels. Since I moved out I've always wanted to have my own tank. I'd always walk through LFS checking out the cichlids. I always liked South Amreican cichlids over the flashier African cichlids. Around December I decided to start saving up and researching biotope setups. I started setting up my 6 foot tank in March. I started my second tank for my niece in June. I felt like I had finished my community tank last month. However the fish then decided to sart remodelling it. Niether tank is a proper biotope tank, as there are fish and plant species from all different parts of the Amazon river systems. As well as plants from all over the world. Most of these photo's were taken a month ago, before the mountains and valleys started appearing and the deforestation happened. Oh well it's their home, they can remodel it how they like. The second photo is of my second tank before I stocked it. Stocking list for 160 gallon community tank: 6 Geophagus araguaia sp. "orange head" 2m/4f Apistogramma agassizii sp. "red gold" 4 Cleithracara maroni 1 Laetacara curviceps 40+ Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi - black neon tetra 20+ Carnegiella strgata - marbled hatchetfish 6 Corydoras julii 6 Otocinclus vestitus 2 L110 Ancistrus sp. "orange spot" 1 Glyptoperichthys joselimaianus Stocking list for 34 gallon Tall Keyhole tank 1 pair Cleithracara maroni 6 Nannostomus marginatus - Dwarf Pencilfish 9 Hemigrammus rhodostomus - Rummynose Tetra 3 Corydoras melanistius - Bluespotted corydoras 3 Otocinclus vestitus My 6 foot, 160 gallon tank. My 2 foot, 34 gallon Tall tank. Geophagus araguaia 2 Male keyholes and female agassizii. Group photo. Another female agassizii, 2 pairs of keyholes, curviceps, otocinclus, and 2 corydoras. The two dominant males ignore each other as they pass. A. agassizii & G. araguaia Gold spot pleco sucking glass, and bristlenose under the log. Oh and a keyhole and my male curviceps swiming behind the anubis log. He's the hardest fish to get a decent photo of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsx Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 nice tanks love your geo's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyr Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 nice tank and welcome to ace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricyellowz Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 I really like both tanks and also the geo's! Good work and welcome. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattnshez Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Nice tanks mate and welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIXLID69 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 You have beautiful tanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkw Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Excellent looking tanks mate! Just wondering though -- What is the brand / model of that 6 footer? it's exactly what I'm looking for. -dkw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briztoon Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Excellent looking tanks mate! Just wondering though -- What is the brand / model of that 6 footer? it's exactly what I'm looking for. -dkw. G'day dkw, The brand of the tank is called Sunsun. I have seen the exact same tank in several different LFS with different brand names. My regular LFS told me that they order them from China and that they can get any brand name that they want on them. The tank has a wet/dry trikle filter in the back half of the hood, which has seven filter media compartments running the length of the tank. Not stacked on each other like a canister filter, but side by side. The filter has two parallel drip bars that runs the length, and they are fed by two internal pumps, 900 litres an hour each, one at each end of the tank. You can see them in the photo. I also have an eheim pro 2228 hooked to the tank. But instead of having the return feeding a spray bar, I have it rigged so that it drips onto the wet/dry filter in the back of the tank, so it's double filtered. The eheim is filled with eheim substrate pro, and the wet/dry compartments alternate between peat and purigen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briztoon Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Thankyou for the comments guys. It's always good to get feed back on the effort and the $$$ you put into your tank. Here are a couple more photos. One of my two pairs of keyholes. The other pair bugged out from the previous photo. From my six geos I have had 2 pairs develop. The dominat pair has claimed the cave under one of the anubis forest logs and have just about excavated it out down to the glass. Dumping laterite all over the place... Dominant pair hard at work. The @#*! hill they have created in front of their cave. Mannnn...they buried two of my amazon swords. The second pair have claimed the log in the middle of the tank. They started excatvating under it and cuased it to fall forward a bit, creating a better cave awning. This is the male sticking his head out. My pleco. Getting a bit close for comfort Finally a pic of my sub-dominat A. Agassizii, he's running away from the dominant male who is just out of picture. It also is a good pick of some of my black neon tetras and marbled hatchetfish. Oh and the lillies that cover close to half the surface area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdog013 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 very nice geos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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